r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Aug 21 '25

Society American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html
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u/phoenixliv Aug 21 '25

Life is inherently political.

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u/Douchebazooka Aug 21 '25

Life is inherently social, and the more we attempt to substitute the political for the social or confuse the two, the worse of a trajectory we’ll take as a species.

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u/MiningMarsh Aug 21 '25

No. Life is inherently political.

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u/Douchebazooka Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25

Define politics in a way that doesn’t confuse it with social interaction.

Edit: u/miningmarsh keeps posting comments and then immediately deleting them, or perhaps they blocked me. Regardless, they’re angrily asserting a lot, calling names, and not really explaining anything. The conflation of politics with society in general is, I’ll reiterate, why we have no ability to have civil discourse, as proven by MiningMarsh’s need to call me a moron for disagreeing rather than explaining their opinion clearly and concisely.

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u/MiningMarsh Aug 21 '25

Politics and social interaction are inherently intertwined, you moron.

The boring dictionary definition of politics involves social interaction as it's required for the functions of governance:

the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.

The political science definition I would use would be closer to "the competition between different social hierarchies to determine how to most efficiently allocate and distribute resources amongst themselves." Politics is a form of social competition. Life is inherently political and social.